Hi everyone. I have just heard the terrible news that Serge is in a coma in Labroisiere hospital in Paris. His daughter has told us that as yet they haven't confirmed what has caused this and as of today, Serge is in a more stable condition.

Hopefully his recovery will be very quick.

On behalf of everyone here - Get well soon Serge. All the best to you and your family my friend. Speak soon. Trev

Alex wrote:Really hope he pulls through as he was an excellent athlete and person.

Resurrected wrote:I've just read he was down to 4% bodyfat and training to get in shape to guest pose at the 2009 Olympia.

kp1512 wrote:Was flouting about on boards that he was in a coma

Hi everyone. I have just heard the terrible news that Serge is in a coma in Labroisiere hospital in Paris. His daughter has told us that as yet they haven't confirmed what has caused this and as of today, Serge is in a more stable condition.

Hopefully his recovery will be very quick.

On behalf of everyone here - Get well soon Serge. All the best to you and your family my friend. Speak soon. Trev

Legend in himself and here training at 70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIPZgmxgg_s

kp1512 wrote:Legend in himself and here training at 70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIPZgmxgg_s

Resurrected wrote:I emailed Serge yesterday. So lets wait and see if I get a reply from him or his daughter.

Alex wrote:Ressie, did you hear anything back yet?

To cut a long story short and to stop the rumors available on the internet, we have decided to publish this official statement concerning Serge Nubret's health state.

On March 19 2009, our father was discovered home, in a coma by firemen. He was immediately transfered to the Lariboisiere hospital. Since that, Serge Nubret is under the supervision of the hospital's medical staff. For now, the diagnosis is a
hypoglycemic coma probably due to a malfunction of the pancreas. The explorations continues while Serge Nubret is in rehabilitation. We will keep you informed of any change in its health state.

Meanwhile, we suspend the website.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

His children.

http://www.sergenubret.com/

In this day and age of instant access and technology that can dispel rumors before they even get any legs, it is amazing that the situation concerning the health of a bodybuilding legend has been in doubt for months on end. Serge Nubret, 70, was reportedly training to make a guest posing appearance at this year’s Mr. Olympia contest before being found in a comatose state at his home in France on March 19, 2009. Nubret’s website included this official statement:

To cut a long story short and to stop the rumors available on the internet, we have decided to publish this official statement concerning Serge Nubret’s health state.

On March 19 2009, our father was discovered home, in a coma by firemen. He was immediately transfered to the Lariboisiere hospital. Since that, Serge Nubret is under the supervision of the hospital’s medical staff. For now, the diagnosis is a hypoglycemic coma probably due to a malfunction of the pancreas. The explorations continues while Serge Nubret is in rehabilitation. We will keep you informed of any change in its health state.

Meanwhile, we suspend the website. Thank you for your understanding and support.

His children.

He was hospitalized and then supposedly suffered a stroke, which was not confirmed. There was even a rumor that Nubret had passed away. Approximately a month later, a forum on the (deleted upon request) reported that he may have been poisoned and that his daughter was his primary care physician:

*(Deleted Upon Request – Please Check the Editor’s Note at End for More Information)

A day later, the same forum member posted the following:

*(Deleted Upon Request)

And then on the Muscular Development forum, the following was reported as being from a “friend of Serge Nubret”:

Dear Friends of Serge,

Tommy and I are putting together a card to send to Serge from all of his
friends and fans to show him love and support. Serge has been in the hospital since March 18 when he was poisoned at Pascale’s apartment and sent to intensive care toxicology.

A police investigation has been going on for the past several weeks to fully examine all who were involved and the cover up at Lariboisiere Hospital (where Serge had been sedated/drugged into a state of coma/confused trance where he did not recognize anyone for over a month and could not move or talk).

His daughter, Karine, an anesthetist, was the doctor in charge of him. No one was allowed to see him.When the police became involved, Serge’s condition started to improve immediately–less than 24 hours later he started to recognize people again after the drugs/sedation were ceased.

He is still unable to talk or move very much. Police District 10 is not giving out much information right now because of protocol/security procautions; some of his family are currently under investigation.

Before Serge was poisoned, he was in one of the best conditions of his life. His physique looked similar to and weighed the same as it had decades earlier at his best.

Because he had no heart attack/stroke and his heart/brain MRI was also normal, we are hoping for recovery of memory and health and that there
is no permanent damage from being poisoned, drugged and sedated. Please send him positive energy and prayers.

Thank you.

The latest word came on July 17 when the Bodybuilding.com forum included this post, supposedly from Nubret himself:

my children poisened me to take my money books and land

they drugging me so I canot talk and lies why i am here
i canot walk i dont want die in hopital
hopital know this and cover up everyting pleas get me out

serge

We have reprinted all of the above posts in their original form, misspellings included.

What exactly happened to Nubret remains to be seen, but one thing that we know for sure is that he was training and looking fantastic for someone his age right before he was felled. The likely speculation was that Nubret was using performance-enhancing drugs for his ‘comeback,’ if you will, which caused him to become ill in the first place. Even if he was using anything, his possible grave present condition would appear to have more causes.

MuscleSport Mag has contacted the IFBB and the person who sent the information to Muscular Development asking for any details or at least clarification on what is and what is not true in this situation.

——————————————————————————————————————————

*EDITOR’S NOTE

Please be advised that the above article has been modified upon request of someone close to the situation. While we take our journalistic responsibilities seriously and understand that the information that was originally included is very important, we are also showing an amount of respect to the requester.

The safety of Serge is of the utmost importance and once we receive more information and feel it is the right time to publicize it, we will then of course follow up on this most interesting story. Not being able to verify certain aspects of the situation surrounding Serge has been frustrating, to say the least, but we feel that the route we have chosen to take will be the best one in the long run.

Please understand that this is a real-life situation and we as a media outlet do not want to keep our readers in the dark, but the sketchiness of this entire scenario has left us guessing, as well

http://www.musclesportmag.com/2009/07/1 ... continues/